Adobe Discovery Day

Heartland Maker Fest

EbertFest Symposium

Pygmalion Tech Demo 2019

Law Expo 2019

Zhejiang University Visit

TheatreFest 2019

Second Grade Field Trip

Recently, we hosted a class of second graders from Barkstall Elementary School to visit our innovation spaces and try out our technology. It was a great time for everyone!

International Guests

During Summer 2019, CITL’s Innovation Spaces have been happy to host many guests from universities around the world who are interested in using technology to enhance learning. Here are some photos from these visits that highlight our relationship with other educational institutions across the globe!

Cornerstone Home Schoolers

Thirteen home-schooled students took time away from their studies to visit the Innovation Spaces to explore laser cutting, 3D printing and virtual reality.    

Ebertfest Film Festival

Staff from CITL’s Innovation Spaces demonstrated Virtual Reality to festival goers at the 2019 Ebertfest Film Festival. An added feature of this year’s festival will be virtual reality demonstrations on the plaza outside the Virginia Theatre in between films on April 12, hosted by the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning at the U. […]

HKPU Visit

Hong Kong Polytechnic University Visit to the Innovation Spaces during Spring 2019.

Gadget Garage Pop-Up Clinic

The Innovation Studio held a series of Pop-Up Repair Clinics during Spring semester in conjunction with the Illini Gadget Garage.  Read more about the Gadget Garage. Letter to the Editor – Help is Needed at the Gadget Garage

Urbana Middle School Visit

Photos from the Spring 2019 Urbana Middle School Field Trip to the CITL Innovation Spaces.

Agora Days

VR Lab representatives offered an Immersive Media mini course during Uni High School Agora days.  

Kent Seminar Series and The Power of Presentation

Senior eLearning Specialist Jamie Nelson presented “The Power of Presentation: Making an Impact on your Audience through Intentional Design and Engagement”at the Kent Seminar Thursday, Nov. 29. Watch the video, below. Interested in having Jamie present to you own group? Contact him through the TechHub website.

U of I Extension Conference

CITL’s VR Lab participated in the conference imaginarium session that provided a space for 375 conference attendees to experience a place where their minds can expand and soar, where innovation, curiosity, and creativity are encouraged and where learning and problem solving can occur.

Lincoln Land Community College Visit

Division of Nutritional Sciences and the Power of Presentation

Jamie spoke to graduate students about the various methods of creating more engaging presentation as a part of the NUTR 500 Seminar Series held by the Division of Nutritional Sciences.  The Division of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana is one of the top graduate nutrition programs in the United States. Not only are […]

College of Media – 360° Media & Entertainment Camp

“Thank you so much for kicking off what turned out to be a transformative week for the students attending the 360° Media & Entertainment Camp at the College of Media.The students found your session engaging and eye-opening. You got them thinking about production and storytelling in a whole new way. This contributed to  9 out […]

Mahomet High School Faculty

Mahomet-Seymour High School faculty and administrators visited the Innovation Spaces on July 11th to explore emerging technologies and their educational applications.

iSTEAM Summer Program

Young students interested in architecture, on campus for the Summer iSteam program, visited the Innovation Spaces to investigate the intersection of architect and virtual reality.    

Next Generation School – Studying The Moon

A group of 14 students from the Next Generation School visited CITL’s Innovation Spaces to explore the moon and the moon surface using VR and the Video Wall.

Upward Bound Visit

Students from the OSMA Upwards Bound Program visited the Innovation Spaces in June.

Counseling Center Reading Day Relaxation Event

STEAM Students Visit AIS

Students from the Next Generation School returned to the Innovation Spaces to study the history of castles.  

Future Freshmen Visit AIS

Professor Anna Kasten’s class of 15 ‘Future Freshman’ here on a STEM scholarship from Saudi Arabia, visited the Armory Innovation Spaces where they experimented with touch screen technology, virtual reality, 360 photography, 3d printing and more. Student teams also had the chance to defuse a virtual bomb playing Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes on the Vive […]

Zhejiang University

As part of their recent visit to UIUC campus, traveling scholars from Zhejiang University toured the Armory Innovation Spaces to learn more about how digital textbooks, virtual reality and 3d scanning and printing technologies are being used within higher education.

i-STEM Article Features Armory Innovation Spaces

The i-STEM education initiative featured an article on the Armory Spaces supporting an after-school STEM program with the Next Generation School. “The Illinois VR Lab they visited is part of CITL’s (Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning)iFLEX initiative to build active learning classrooms around campus. In the case of the cave unit, the technology allowed the kids […]

Lorri Hopping Visit

On November 9th, 2017, The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning co-hosted Lorri Hopping as a guest speaker as a part of the “Playful By Design: Gaming Pedagogies, Digital Literacies, and the Public Humanities” IPRH Research Cluster. Here’s a bit about Lorri and what she shared with campus: “Navigating Tech Revolutions: Confessions of a […]

MakerGirl Workshops Come to the Armory

The MakerGirl RSO began using the Innovation Studio for some of their events in the Fall of 2017. They offer workshops to teach young girls the basics of 3D printing. Due to our strong partnership with Makergirl, we are lucky to house 9 of their Ultimaker printers in the TechHub and Innovation Studio.

Research Expo at the College of Law

We took PlaystationVR on the road to the Law Building during their Research Expo to share a United Nations 360 video production about a Syrian refugee in Clouds Over Sidra. Many attendees hadn’t experience VR before and were interested in learning more about how it might be used in their field.

Next Generation School STEAM program

Grade schoolers from the Next Generation School visited the Innovation Studio and TechHub to learn more about caves. They spent time in the Vive VR headset touring virtual cave sites, and they research caves using google maps in the Innovation Studio.

Playful by Design Visit the Armory

Playful by Design is a IPRH supported research cluster that focuses on games, platforms and pedagogies designed to foster empathy, to facilitate the attainment of cultural, digital, and linguistic fluencies, and to promote collaborative authorship and digital inclusion through the Public Humanities. They also hope to generate creativity, energy, and excitement around the possible development of […]

Pygmalion Tech Demo

DEMO is a full evening of the latest developments from local companies and student developers showcasing everything from wearables, 3D printing, virtual reality, video games, robotics, and more. See a list of participants at www.thepygmalionfestival.com/tech/demo.